Sunday, 9/9/12....I had spent most of the day today in bed with some kind of unforgiving stomach bug.....but sometime around 6 pm, I managed to crawl myself up and out of my room and to my trusted iPad to see what I had missed.........and there it was....an innocuous Craigslist ad: "snare and case: $XXX...I knew that I had missed the deal of the day, even though it had just been posted some 15 minutes beforehand.....I emailed the anonymous email address...and waited.

I finally got the call...the snare was still available......of course, it was located on the other side of town...not to mention there was a language barrier to hurdle too in getting directions from its owner......long story short: I managed to "rescue" a mid 90's beautiful Ludwig 5 x 14 Supraphonic snare drum (Monroe keystone badge) and a Ludwig UFO case from the nice lady.....and I even got a lead too from someone else in her family needing a student's drum kit (remember to always ask seller's if they have any other drums/drum parts and/or other music instruments!)

Internet  ads that pop up every now and then with no detailed descriptions and crude photography are a drum picker's smoking gun to perhaps a great deal from someone who knows not what they have.....